mongo

¹ American  

[mong-goh] / ˈmɒŋ goʊ /

Or mongoe

noun

plural

mongos

1. mungo.

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mongo ² American  

[mong-goh] / ˈmɒŋ goʊ /

noun

plural

mongo, mongos

1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the Mongolian People's Republic, one 100th of a tugrik.

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Mongo ³ American  

[mong-goh] / ˈmɒŋ goʊ /

noun

1. a member of any of various agricultural peoples of the central Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2. the Bantu language of the Mongo peoples.

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mongo ¹ British  

/ ˈmɒŋɡəʊ /

noun

1. a variant of mungo

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möngö ² British  

/ ˈmɒŋɡəʊ /

noun

1. a Mongolian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a tugrik

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Usage

What else does mongo mean? Mongo can be a slang term for "huge" or "extremely."In another, unrelated sense, mongo or mong can be a slur for a "stupid" person.Mongo is also used in New York to describe items picked from the trash.

Etymology

Origin of mongo

First recorded in 1935–40; from modern Mongolian möngö, from mönggün “silver, money”

Example Sentences

“Remember Charles Reich’s mongo bestseller, ‘The Greening of America’?” writer Amity Shlaes wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 1999, nearly three decades after the book was published.

From Washington Post

Nkoko, mongo, zulu—river, mountain, sky—everything must be called out from the void by the word we use to claim it.

From Literature

Currently this API is providing a view of our old database, but as we move towards creating a new database, powered by mongo we have made a change to the responses our API provides.

From The Guardian

"Master, he died," said Olari; "he died of the sickness mongo—the sickness itself."

From Project Gutenberg

"Here we will wait," panted the uncle, "and when B'chumbiri comes we will call him to land, for he has the sickness mongo."

From Project Gutenberg